Don Lemon's Unsure Why Kanye Hates Him, Says His Racial Slur Was Unwarranted | TMZ Live - video Dailymotion

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Don Lemon is firing back at Kanye West’s Grammy rant against him ... telling us he doesn’t get why the rapper had to throw a racial slur into the mix.

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00:00One person who is not thrilled with Kanye is Don Lemon.

00:04And we told you that they had a whole showdown at the Grammys.

00:07Kanye didn't ask, like, a question that Don asked,

00:09even though it was completely innocent.

00:11Kanye was wrong on that.

00:12Don never said what Kanye said.

00:13Yeah, exactly.

00:14So Kanye had wrong information, but he used an epithet,

00:19the C word.

00:21A racial epithet.

00:22In referring to Don Lemon.

00:24So we got Don at LAX as he was getting out of town

00:28and asked him about that showdown

00:30and why he was so upset about it.

00:33I just asked him music questions and, you know, fine.

00:36If he didn't want to talk, he didn't want to talk.

00:37Right.

00:38He didn't have to post that stuff about me

00:39and he didn't have to call me.

00:40Right, I mean.

00:42I don't like to use that word or call anyone that word.

00:44And I think that's, that can be, you know,

00:47unapproachable.

00:49It may be even a worse insult among black people

00:52than the N word.

00:53Because with the N word, you know,

00:54you say it a lot in rap music and it's a, you know,

00:56not a hard R, but with that word among black people,

01:00it has a certain connotation.

01:01That's really interesting you said that.

01:02It sounds true to me, right?

01:05Yeah, think about it.

01:06You're on an arrival line and Kanye's walking down.

01:10On one hand, you're excited

01:11because you're going to get something.

01:13And then on the other hand,

01:15I don't know what I'm going to get.

01:16Dude, I'm running for the hills.

01:17Yeah.

01:18Oh, I don't know what happened to camera, bro.

01:19I got to go.

01:26I got to go.

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